Hey, you made it. I’m William B. Isley, The Scientific Spiritualist, and this week’s Sunday Spirit Talks for Galactic Seeds is all about something I’m learning again and again: the perils of overworking and the importance of caring for our human bodies. Plus, whatever else pops in along the way. So settle in as we explore how to respect and listen to the body without pushing too hard, and how this ties into the bigger picture of our spiritual and physical journey.

Table of Contents

• Sleeping In, Mowing, and the Limits of Pushing Too Hard
• Food as a Program: Diet, Body, and the Science-Spiritual Connection
• Post-Diabetic Reflections and the Emotional Side of Eating
• Physiological Changes and Muscle Cramping
• Lessons from Movies and the Limits of Endurance
• Energetic and Spiritual Work: Symbol Unlocks and Mapping Challenges
• Rain, Grass, and the Cycle of Effort
• Minimal Chat with Claude and a Reminder to Take Care of Yourself
• Table of Contents
• FAQ
• About Me
• Remember:

Sleeping In, Mowing, and the Limits of Pushing Too Hard

Yesterday was a nice day. I slept in, woke up late, and got started late. It was glorious. I noticed a part of the yard desperately needed mowing, so I went out and spent about two hours mowing. My phone told me I’d walked 2.67 miles just mowing. Interesting, because earlier in the week, I walked about four miles in a day and didn’t feel too tired. Last night was date night, and we stayed up late watching movies, including The Last Unicorn from 1982. It’s cheesy but fascinating how it was put together. Apparently, it was originally a book written by a Japanese gentleman in the 60s or 70s before it became an animation. It had some interesting thinker lines in it.

Meanwhile, I’ve got this Whoop I use with a battery pack, charging it up right now, and it told me my recovery from last night was only 23%, even though my sleep efficiency was about 70%. So, I pretty much canceled my afternoon appointments, and once I finish uploading everything, I’m going to take a long nap. Trust me when I say: being in shape is one thing, being fit is another, and pushing too hard is still something else entirely.

I’m happy to say I’m in shape, I’m fit—those are separate things—I’m still prone to pushing my body too hard. I’m discovering that, in many ways, we’re two separate entities. With muscle testing, it’s very helpful to ask the body what it wants, what it needs. Because if you, as the controller of that envelope called your body, haven’t learned how to respect its needs, it will break on you.

Learning to Listen: The Body and the Mind as Separate Entities

Maybe three decades ago, I kept pushing too hard, and the body kept breaking. I finally realized, “Oh wait, something’s going on here.” So over months, I made an agreement with my body: when I push too hard, it’s going to get sick and force me to stop and rest. We kept that agreement for years until I learned muscle testing around 2012. That was an interesting year. But even then, I didn’t know how to ask my body what it needed. It took a few more years to get there.

What’s nice now is using muscle testing when I’m in WildFit spring and asking, “Okay body, if we eat this, will it pull us out of ketosis? Yes or no?” That helps a lot. This morning, I woke up and asked, “Should we stretch? Yes. Should we do anything more? No.” It’s just a matter of not pushing too hard because I am good at that.

There’s a point where relentless turns into a malady — a not helpful trait. I’m happy that I can rack up five, six, seven miles of walking with a big wheel trimmer—essentially a weed eater on wheels—at 54 years old. That’s just friggin’ awesome. I see so many people my age at the VA who look twenty or thirty years older than they should, and not just at the VA, everywhere.

Food as a Program: Diet, Body, and the Science-Spiritual Connection

There’s a lot to be said about the diet we feed our bodies. Twenty years ago, I got involved with a company called Manatech. Their training material was by a doctor who talked about food as a program. You eat the food, and it tells your body what to do with it. If it stimulates the pancreas and insulin, it stores fat. If it stimulates the adrenals, it ramps you up. That was helpful education, and I still use part of that.

Finding the WildFit eating system and a couple of food tools friends gave me has been a nice ride. I’m still running about 220 pounds pretty consistently, which is okay. Right now, my body and I are trying an experiment: every other week, WildFit summer, then WildFit spring, and so on until August. Then I’ll do a five-day fast to clear out zombie cells and reboot the system.

Before I had hernia surgery, I was thinner—around 205 pounds. Now I’m carrying an extra fifteen pounds. The body needs time to get used to different sizes we want it to be. We didn’t get that size overnight, and we end up carrying it for decades. So going back down sometimes takes time for the body to settle in.

The Mind’s Role in Body Image and Change

Thirty-five years ago when I joined the military, I got thin, my mind didn’t catch up. I saw myself as fat and ugly before and after. I literally worked my butt off twice to get in and three more times to stay in because I had no clue I was thin and apparently good looking. Franya looks at pictures from that time and tells me I was good looking. Now I can look at those pictures and say, “Yeah, okay, I guess I was.”

Just like the body, the mind has to be ready for certain changes. If not, that’s where yo-yo dieting comes in.

Postdiabetic Reflections and the Emotional Side of Eating

I went through book Postdiabetic, and fortunately, I had already done the work in Overeaters Anonymous about why I eat what I eat. It reminds me of this scene from The Matrix when Cypher talks with Agent Smith, holding up a forkful of non-existent steak. He says, “I know this doesn’t exist. I know when I put it in my mouth, the matrix tells me it’s delicious, etc.” It’s an emotional thing. Even though it doesn’t exist, it still tastes good.

That’s a big part of eating. It’s emotional. We put things in our mouths because they remind us of something, an experience, a feeling. I’m thankful one of my comfort foods is healthy: eggs with ground beef or ground turkey and mayonnaise. The eggs and ground beef are cooked together, and then you add the mayo. That’s a comfort food for me, which is better than a bag of M&Ms, Skittles, or Reese’s Pieces.

The Sugar Trap and Food as Weapons of Mass Destruction

I didn’t understand all the weapons of mass destruction big food has built into treats like Oreos and even spaghetti sauce. Spaghetti sauce is loaded with sugar. I remember the doctor in Postdiabetic writing about this—being away from spaghetti sauce for a week and then coming back to it, thinking it had gone bad because it tasted so sweet.

I take a swig of spaghetti sauce every day because it’s good for the prostate, but I was so desensitized to the sugar I didn’t taste it anymore—just the tomatoes. But after a week away, it tasted like butterscotch candy. That much sugar in it. Just wow.

Physiological Changes and Muscle Cramping

One thing I’ve noticed lately: when I sweat outside, I’m sweating water now, not syrup. Yeah, it’s pretty gross. When I worked at the bank, a coworker quit smoking and after a few weeks, he got resensitized to the smell of smoke and realized how bad it stunk. Same kind of thing.

Last night I had a calf cramp, and what’s nice is my physiology has changed so that muscle cramps aren’t the end of the world anymore. It’s just a cramp—not something to freak out over. It’s amazing how things change in the body in ways I didn’t realize they could.

Lessons from Movies and the Limits of Endurance

We also watched Greyhound last night with Tom Hanks. It’s about World War II destroyers escorting convoys across the Atlantic. The movie takes place over a 50-60 hour period. I’m pretty sure the ship’s captain didn’t eat or sleep during that time. It’s amazing what we can do when we need to.

I’ve been there and done that, but there are times and places where pushing too hard for too long makes things break. So yeah, there is that.

Energetic and Spiritual Work: Symbol Unlocks and Mapping Challenges

Spiritually, my brain is fuzzy today, so I don’t think I had any big realizations—wait, maybe one. I reached a block mapping out my shoulder blade tank systems. Then, late in the afternoon, the guy renting the place sent his nephew over to look for a tensioner for barbed wire fence. He went to the wrong corner, but I knew where it was and showed him.

He had this tattoo on his wrist that was a cool symbol. I asked what it meant. He said it was his mom’s birth date; she passed over 10-15 years ago. The nephew is about 22, so he’s been without a mom for a long time. The way he did the twos in the date overlapped them and flipped one to create a new symbol I’d never seen before.

Thanks to him, I got new symbols to write down and test with muscle testing to see if they fit into this tank system. I’d gotten to tank number nine and my brain couldn’t process the symbols trying to be downloaded. That was a great unlock for that challenge.

Rain, Grass, and the Cycle of Effort

It’s raining really hard right now. I’m glad I put in the effort to mow yesterday because now the grass can grow higher for the next mowing. Yeehaw.

Minimal Chat with Claude and a Reminder to Take Care of Yourself

I haven’t had much time to converse with Claude lately, so I’ll leave it at that. Remember: take care of yourself and your body. Even though it’s difficult sometimes, you and your body are separate and distinct entities.

You are not your brain. Your brain is your tool—an incredible computer to solve problems for you. It’s not you.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Be the light you want to see in the world. And if there’s a thought or voice in your head telling you how crappy you are in any way, shape, or form, thank it, ruthlessly fire it, and escort it from the building.

FAQ

Q: How do you know when you’re pushing your body too hard?

A: My Whoop, which tracks my recovery and sleep efficiency, told me my recovery was only 23% after a day of mowing and a late night. I canceled my afternoon appointments and took a long nap. It’s about listening to what your body says, not just what your mind wants.

Q: How does muscle testing help you with your body’s needs?

A: Muscle testing lets me ask my body yes or no questions, like if eating certain foods will pull me out of ketosis. It’s a tool to communicate and respect what the body wants rather than just assuming or pushing through.

Q: What’s your take on diet and how it programs the body?

A: Food acts as a program for your body. It tells your body what to do—store fat, ramp up adrenals, etc. I learned this from Manatech training years ago and still use it. WildFit and other tools have helped me manage this better.

Q: How do you handle emotional eating?

A: I’ve done work in Overeaters Anonymous to understand why I eat certain things. Emotional eating is real. It’s like that scene in The Matrix where Cypher knows the steak isn’t real but it tastes good emotionally. I’m thankful my comfort food is healthy, like eggs with ground turkey and mayo.

Q: What surprised you about sugar in foods?

A: I was desensitized to sugar in spaghetti sauce because I ate it daily for prostate health. After a week off, the sugar hit me like butterscotch candy. It’s amazing how much sugar is hidden in foods we don’t expect.

Q: What changes have you noticed in your body lately?

A: I sweat water now instead of syrup, and muscle cramps aren’t as painful as before. My physiology is changing in ways I didn’t expect, which is pretty cool.

Q: What’s your spiritual breakthrough this week?

A: I got stuck mapping my shoulder blade tank systems, and a chance encounter with a guy’s nephew and his unique tattoo symbol unlocked new ideas for me. It’s about overlapping numbers and letters to create new symbols and testing them with muscle testing.

Q: How do you view your brain in relation to you?

A: The brain is a tool, an incredible computer to solve problems. It’s not you. You, your brain, and your body are separate and distinct entities. Respect all three.

Q: What advice do you have for dealing with negative self-talk?

A: If a voice or thought tells you how crappy you are, thank it, ruthlessly fire it, and escort it from the building. It’s not yours.

About Me

I am William B. Isley, The Scientific Spiritualist, pioneering the bridge between quantum physics and consciousness development. I specialize in translating spiritual concepts through scientific understanding. I’ve created proprietary systems like Life Monster Clearing, Essence Retrieval, and Energy Code Healing. I approach ADHD as “Attention Dialed to a Higher Dimension.” My background includes military service, IT leadership, and extensive spiritual development. I combine personal experience with practical teaching methods, valuing straightforward communication and authentic expression.

Remember:

Be the light you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
If there’s a thought or a voice in your head that tells you how crappy you are: Thank it, Ruthlessly fire it, and Escort it from the building because it is not yours.

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